Improvement in boxes for making mattresses



BOXES FOR MAKING MATTRESSES.

No. 193,501. Patented July 24,1877.

`N,FETF.RS, PHOTO-UTNOGHAPHER, wnsmNeTON. Dv C '1" OFFICE.

JOHN H. GALLAGHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOXES FOR MAKING MATTRESSES..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,501-, dated July24, 1877; application filed April 11, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. GALLAGHER, of New York, in the State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Method of Making Hair Mattresses,or mattresses that are to be made of hair or other similar maof themattress, and to the manner of sewing the two sides of the tick throughthe hair or other stuffing, as or after the sack is lled.

My method of making the mattress is as follows: The tick or sack isfirst made in the usual manner; the tick is then placed or stretched ina box or frame, (shown in the drawing by A,) and there tacked. Thisframe is one of three sections, which, when taken together, form a boxlarge enough to contain the mattress, the remaining two sections beingmarked B B and U (J.

rlhe section A consists ofthe end piece, the top and bottom pieces, andthe two side pieces, allot' which are proportioned with reference vtoeach other to form a box of the size and piece and the two side piecesof the box are then putin place, and the tick is tacked around theedges, through the seam in the edge of the planks forming the section. A

-Thc top piece is then put on and the pins inserted through the staplesto hold the section together. The hair or other material is then stuedin the sack or tick until section A is thoroughly filled. Section B B isthen formed or set up over the tick. This section and section C Gconsist only of the top and bottom planks and the two side pieces, whichare held together by staples and pins, the same as in thecase of sectionA. Section B B being thus set up in its place, the tick or sack isstuffed with hair or other material up to the end of this section.Section G Gis then set up in its place and the stuffing continued untilthe tick is filled.

The side edges of the tick being tacked through the seams to thesections B and C, tlie same as in the case'of section A, so that themattress, when completed, shall have exactly the form of the interior ofthe box in which it is illed. The mattress, having been thus filled andformed in the box, is sewed before the box is removed, and thus made toretain its form after the box is taken off.

The sewing is done with suitable twine and a long needle passed throughthe holes d d from side to side of the mattress, the hole d being madein the top and bottom planks of the sections to exactly correspond-thatis to say, the holes in the top and bottom planks are made to correspondwith each other in their respective distances from the sides and ends ofthe several planks, so that the sewing will be square through themattress, that the bottom and top side of the tick will not draw, aswould be the case if the twine were passed through diagonally, or if theholes in the planks were not directly opposite each other in the top andbottom planks.

After the sack has been thus stuffed the pins are taken out of the topstaple, the top plank removed, the tracks taken out of the top sideseams, and the end and the side piece removed. The tacks are then takenout of the bottom side seams, which release the mattress, all dulyformed, ready for finishing, which is done in the usual manner.

Having thus described my invention, I-cla-i-'m as new and desire tosecure'y by Letters' Patent- In the manufacture of mattresses a box madein sections to contain the tick wlile it is being stued, and piercedwith holes to facilitate the sewingv of the mattress, tle s'cf ceedingsections of the box to be applied as the tick, substantially asdescribed.

JOHN HJ GALLAGHER. Witnesses:l

Amos BROADNXX, PATRICK J. FLYNN.

